Crohn Name Origin and Family Crest

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Family name meaning

Crohn is how some branches of the Krohn family came to write their name. Its meaning, shared with Krohn, is “A nickname from the crane”.

Crohn writes “c” in place of the “k” found in Krohn, a typical scribal difference. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. You may also find the name written Kron and Kroon. According to the 2010 US Census, the Crohn surname had 251 bearers. It sits among the 100,000 most common last names in the country.

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